Gennice bursts into tears at the slightest thing, such as the movie Beaches and dropping her hot dog, compelling Jerry to have to console her repeatedly.
During a charity softball game held in Central Park, George scores a run by charging into Midler at home plate.
He reunites with one of the manicurists, Kim, an old flame whom he met in Korea; they broke up because he would not take off his shoes upon entering her house.
George, Jerry, and Gennice visit the hospital to apologize to Bette Midler, but Kramer refuses to let them enter her room.
When Gennice takes the stage, she has a problem with the laces on her boot and tearfully pleads that she be allowed to start over.
A stand-up routine was filmed for the intro, but deleted before broadcast because the episode had run so far over the limit for its time slot.
[2] Though it originated with writer Marjorie Gross contemplating what would happen if a celebrity were injured at one of the charity softball games Seinfeld creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld participated in,[3] the Bette Midler/Gennice Graham story arc was developed into a parody of the 1994 Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan scandal.